Columbia Law School in Popular Culture
- Marvel Comics character Matthew Murdock, the alter ego of superhero Daredevil, and his roommate and eventual law partner, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, attended Columbia Law School.
- On the television show Law & Order, Assistant District Attorney Jamie Ross studied law at Columbia.
- In Body Heat, Edmund Walker (played by Richard Crenna), the wealthy husband of the film's femme fatale, is a Columbia Law School graduate.
- In the film Old School, Dean Gordon Pritchard bribes the student body president by guaranteeing her admission to Columbia Law.
- In the film Just Cause, Law Professor Paul Armstrong, played by Sir Sean Connery, is a Columbia Law graduate.
- In the film Two Weeks Notice, Howard Wade, played by David Haig, asks for a lawyer trained at Columbia Law School.
- On the television show How I Met Your Mother, the character Marshall Eriksen is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
- On The West Wing (S5), Angela (the new head of legislative affairs at the White House) meets Leo to talk about the President's high popularity in polls during the time of his daughter's kidnapping. When Leo says that the President's temporary self-removal from office was a constitutional necessity, Angela comments on the negative political ramifications and tells Leo, "If you want a Constitutional debate, call the Dean of Columbia Law."
- On the television show Raising the Bar, the character Judge Trudy Kessler is a Columbia Law alumna.*
- In the novel Portnoy's Complaint, protagonist Alex Portnoy attended Columbia Law School.
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